Media Thread 2020/21

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Mike Cledford said:
There is a debate about the content of the food content of the meal pack for kids not in school

BBC Breakfast of course have to feature St. Marcus shown in the old footage of the food bank warehouse bearing the family name plus a copy of a tweet on his account.

Why not the views of nutritionalists and child development experts plus something about the logistic difficulties of getting appropriate food to kids in a lockdown.

As usual l am none the wiser except a rag player is stuffed onto our screens again.
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Bit of respect please.............
 
Blueboy73 said:
That isn't the point though, the message is well and truly out there and schools are working hard to make provision using very vague government guidelines which basically say do whatever you deem to be fit.
Schools are fully aware of what needs to be done and safeguarding staff are also providing extra support for those who need it wherever this is possible.
The message was relevant during the last lockdown and I don't doubt the lads motivation initially but the longer that the publically funded BBC continues to bang this drum then the more it is starting to look like a publicity stunt.
As a license fee payer and someone who works in a school who is directly involved in this process I don't find the continuing publicity particularly helpful or relevant.
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With respect just because you personally don't think the publicity is important, that doesn't change the wider view of many, that keeping issues like this in the news will help enact serious and meaningful change at government level. Rashford should be applauded for that and to my mind it's pretty churlish to find people having a go at him in a thread about media bias.

As I said, it undermines real issues that City have in the media and it makes it easy for those outside the City bubble to dismiss us as partisan dickheads.
 
Onholiday(somemightsay) said:
In my humble opinion, he hasn't..........
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Well what he has had for sure is a similar level of sneering hate on opposition message boards for trying to bring serious issues into the media.

Personally I think if you remove Rashford's name, and swap it for Sterling, you'll find identical posts on Rag Cafe or RAWK moaning about everything being a PR stunt and him trying to raise his personal profile.
 
BillyShears said:
I've supported City for nearly 30 years now and I don't recall too many if ANY actual City supporters from Manchester covering the club. What we've had are proper rags like Ogden, Jackson, Custis, who are basically cheerleaders for United writing about City in the most negative ways possible.

I'm not privy to the Athletic's policy on writers per club, but I know that they have been interviewing for another City reporter to join their team. It won't be a City supporter because sadly, there are very few of us in the mainstream media.

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Also, for the record. The Blues who have been given a platform by the mainstream media, are in the main, horrible twats. Conn and his ilk are as bad as Delaney.
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gordondaviesmoustache said:
Going back even further, Peter Gardner was from Blackpool iirc.
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Paul Hince was a blue, not always positive & in those days none of us were, we were a mess.

Id think if they want someone to cover City but there isn’t many blues about in that work then maybe it just reduces the odds for those blues that want the job.
 
BillyShears said:
Well what he has had for sure is a similar level of sneering hate on opposition message boards for trying to bring serious issues into the media.

Personally I think if you remove Rashford's name, and swap it for Sterling, you'll find identical posts on Rag Cafe or RAWK moaning about everything being a PR stunt and him trying to raise his personal profile.
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The reactions are predictably, but depressingly, partisan. Some things really should transcend football rivalries.
 
BillyShears said:
Think Sterling has had as much positive press as Rashford has tbf. If anything Rashford probably took inspiration from the way Raz decided to use the media to talk about things that mattered to him.
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I agree but only to a point. Positive articles on Sterling only came about as a result of him calling the media out on their differing reporting positions for Foden & Adarabioyo. Before this the lad couldn't walk into a Greggs or Poundland without being papped.
 
BillyShears said:
With respect just because you personally don't think the publicity is important, that doesn't change the wider view of many, that keeping issues like this in the news will help enact serious and meaningful change at government level. Rashford should be applauded for that and to my mind it's pretty churlish to find people having a go at him in a thread about media bias.

As I said, it undermines real issues that City have in the media and it makes it easy for those outside the City bubble to dismiss us as partisan dickheads.
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With respect I have already said I didn't doubt his motivation initially and I kept quiet on this during the debate during the first lockdown for that very reason.

Yourself and some others may think that
keeping this in the news will help enact change at government level however there are also many including myself and many of my colleagues that actually work in this environment that don't.

In my opinion the government can throw as much money at meal vouchers, food parcels etc. as they like and the BBC can trumpet this as much as they like however this won't tackle the route cause of this situation.

Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you've fed him for a lifetime.
 
cheekybids said:
Paul Hince was a blue, not always positive & in those days none of us were, we were a mess.

Id think if they want someone to cover City but there isn’t many blues about in that work then maybe it just reduces the odds for those blues that want the job.
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Didn't Alan Ball try to blame Paul Hince and his articles in the MUEN for getting him the sack back in 96?
 
Blueboy73 said:
With respect I have already said I didn't doubt his motivation initially and I kept quiet on this during the debate during the first lockdown for that very reason.
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It's a shame your empathy has run out then. Personally I think the economic situation of poor families in the last 12 months will more than likely have gotten worse not better, so continuing to be empathetic and to support anyone who is trying to help, would be the best course of action.

If you don't want to do that, if you feel that the kids need to learn how to catch their own food, then you're entitled to that opinion too. But none of that changes the fact that this is a thread about media bias and here we are discussing a young black footballer doing charity work, simply because he plays for United.

So who's actually biased ?
 
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